4 a.m. around 100 km north of Río Gallegos. I haven’t slept for 32 hours, but the vast Patagonian landscape of veldt you are traveling through fills you with excitement and numbness at the same time, that makes it impossible to find rest. The hours pass, you stare out of the window and it’s as if you would glance at a prehistoric, untouched landscape and realizes how our planet might have been looked a million years ago, before mankind started to cover the earth with highways, urban sprawling and industrial sites.

I could have taken a plane. I could have avoided effort and pain. I could have saved time and money. I could have chosen the nice and easy way. But ever since I have seen the unfamiliar name of Ushuaia, the most southern town in the world, on a map I knew that traveling over land to this destination on tip of the American Continent would be the only way for me. The journey is the reward.

On the bus I met Ricardo, a student from Puerto Montt/ Chile. Together we have been listening to Gustavo Santaolalla’s great song “De Ushuaia a la Quiaca” over and over again, and it seems as if the Argentinean composer has created the perfect soundtrack for traveling trough Patagonia: a hypnotizing melody of distant, superjacent guitars containing this piercing twitch of solitude. A music that intensifies the delirious state on the edge of being awake and falling asleep I’ve been for almost 2 days. As further we are traveling south I realize that we are approaching to the end of the world, to a point were you can’t go any further.

The landscape changes, it’s getting sparser. Sometimes from the middle of nowhere turns up a sheep farm or some remote village consisting of three wooden houses and a church, but as soon as we have passed, there’s pampas, solitude and loneliness again. The incredible vast sky is melting with the horizon and suddenly you wonder if you will ever reach your destination or if this fragile dream of rough beauty might continue forever. And maybe it doesn’t matter anymore, because you have already crossed a hidden frontier and reached an inner point of no return.

But suddenly it all ends, Magellan Strait, the last barrier that had separated us from legendary Tierra del Fuego, has been crossed and we actually reach Ushuaia. The bus spills out its tired, exhausted and happy freight and it feels like a rebirth, like an awakening. Windy roads lead me to the port where giant cruise ships and rotten fishing boats are swaying in Beagle Channel. I’m glancing at the nearby mountain range, forming part of the National Park Tierra del Fuego, when a sudden thought rises up: maybe this isn’t the end of the world; maybe it’s just the beginning.

These days, it is pretty standard for cars to include top of the line safety features. These range from rear-view cameras, lane departure warnings, traction control and even blind spot detection.

Driving a safe vehicle can also mean more money in your pocket as drivers can save on car insurance cost. A car insurance company is generally able to provide more affordable car insurance if your vehicle has safety features. However, safer cars do not necessarily mean safer roads across the country.

From January to June, approximately 18,720 people have died on U.S. roads. As a result of a growing economy, people are driving more miles compared to recession level data. Less unemployment means more cars are on the road getting people to and from work and more money for leisure activities. In 2017, Americans traveled 3.22 trillion miles according to the Federal Highway Administration.

Factor in more miles driven along with speeding, drug and alcohol impaired driving and distracted driving and the fatality rate is at an all-time high.

South Carolina leads the nation in traffic fatality rates per miles traveled. In 2017, the state had 1.88 deaths per 100 million miles traveled, which is almost two times the national average. Illinois reported 1,090 traffic deaths.

This trend prompted Governor Rauner to declare August 17 as Traffic Fatality Awareness Day at the Illinois State Fair through a partnership with the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Police, Illinois Department of Health, Illinois Secretary of State and Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

States across the country have launched similar awareness efforts like Vision Zero. Vision Zero’s goal is to strategically eliminate traffic fatalities and injuries while increasing safe, healthy and equitable mobility for everyone.

Reducing speed is perhaps the most effective way to reduce the fatalities. Speed increases the distance it takes a car to come to a complete stop. The speed of impact is also directly correlated to the risk of death. The higher the speed of impact, the higher the probability of a passenger dying becomes.

Even with lower speeds, it is hard for police officers to enforce these lower limits. Automated cameras are already unpopular and adding more would also be costly.

There is not one computer in the world that doesn’t have one or two games installed. Even if what you have is a work PC, you still need some sort of diversion from the task piling up your table every day. That is the reason why Microsoft created their operating system with built-in free computer games like Solitaire, Hearts, Free Cell and Pin Ball. Too bad your boss doesn’t like them and wipes them away.

But don’t worry. While you can’t enjoy the computers at work with all the games your heart wants to play, you can always pack your PC at home with a huge collection of free computer games that you can get a grip of. These games can easily be installed on your computer right off the internet.

There is a plethora of free computer games over the worldwide web that your computer’s hard drive, no matter how big it is, can’t possibly contain. So just pick several of the games that you tend to enjoy most and install them in one neat folder in your computer. That is how you make your PC – or any PC for that matter – come alive.

There are many games available online and you are free to pick the type that suits your fantasies. There are shooting games, role-playing games, and adventure games especially for the man in you. On the other hand, girl’s games like bubble games, dress-up games, and simulation games are easily obtainable as well.

If you want these games, you simply have to go out on a surfing spree and find the gaming sites that offers free download of their games. Also, it is quite possible to play such games using your browser, just in case you want to enjoy them while at work and without the need for installation. Just be sure that your boss doesn’t block the site and you won’t get caught playing it!

There is a game especially made for everybody. A single game can come in a thousand of variations and one of them is a perfect fit to what you are looking for. For example, a simple racing game with a car and controls can be offered in ten thousand different scenarios over the internet. While all of them are somewhat different in look and in style, there is only one goal – and that is to take your car into the finish line in one piece and ahead of all the others.

Indeed, a PC without even the free computer games installed is not exciting. If you want your computer to come alive, you have to install every new game released in it. That is how you get to enjoy the beauty of both worlds – that of strictly work and of fine leisure. With a computer game, you can reach the farthest end of the earth without even leaving your seat. Try it and you will be amazed as to what free computer games can do for you.